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1 ' The Colorado River Basin: The Agreements and the Results The Secretary [of the Interior] is directed to proceed as nearly as practicable with the construction of the ... [Five Fingers) participating Federal reclamation projects concurrently with the construction of the Central Ariz©na Project, to:the end that such projects shall be completed not Zater than the date of the first delivery of water from said Central Arizona Project. as The Actual Results The projects authorized for the benefit of the Lower Division States, from 1928 through 1968, as part of legislative deals with the Upper Division States have all been completed. Hoover Dam was completed in the mid-1930s, the All American Canal was finished in 1942, various diversion works and other facilities have been completed on the lower mainstem of the river (e.g., Parker ' Dam, Davis Dam, and Senator Wash Dam), and the last major features of the CAP have been completed within the past few years. 1 1 1 u 1 t To be sure, the CAP that has been built is significantly different in certain regards than the CAP that was authorized in 1968: some originally authorized features of the project were deleted, Congress has required that significant non-federal cost sharing be provided toward the completion of construction, and portions of the project's water supply have been allocated to other than the originally contemplated irrigation beneficiaries.ss However, the CAP, even though altered, is physically capable of delivering a little more than 2 million acre-feet per year to Arizona from the Colorado Rivers', as it was originally contemplated it would do. In short, the Lower Division States have, for the most part, gotten that for which they bargained. Indeed, within just the past few years, Arizona, ~ Colorado River Basin Project Act, Pub. L. No. 90-537, § 501(b), 82 Stat. 897 (1968) (codified at 43 U.S.C.A. § 620a-1(1986)). ~ See H. INGRAM, supra note 3, at 123-127. 87 Full use of the CAP's pumping capacity would require substantial purchases of electrical energy beyond that which is available to the project under favorable terms from the federally owned share of the Navajo Generating Station, acoal-fired plant in Arizona. This fact, when coupled with the economic constraints which the CAP irrigation districts presently face, makes it likely, in the author's opinion, that annual CAP deliveries will not exceed about 1.5 million acre-feet for some time to come. Deliveries in 1996 reached nearly 1.2 million acre- feet and are expected to be about the same in 1997. Personal communication from Tom Burbey, Lower Colorado Region, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, to the author (April 29, 1997). 27